i honestly didn't even LOOK at quests this month (except the Noelle one) because i was too much of a mess due to various irl dramas and made QUITE the backlog for myself...but serendipitously Shoka has a good reason to ICly be just as distracted/at the end of her rope as me
(i am still slooowwwwlly working my way through said backlog btw...you know the drill: if i send you a tag that's too crusty no worries if you ignore me. but if you backtag with me we are like this)
when asked for comment on the mayoral election, Shoka Sakurane reportedly responded "i think i might be bisexual. wait. huh? oh that. literally who cares? lmao"
the one other thing that happened to her this month is that she ranked up in her guild but this just gives her MORE reason not to quest. she's like oh i'm doing super well so i can just hang out this month and descend slowly into madness instead then sweet!
nothing has changed in regards to her sleeping/rooming situation because (i am stealing another joke from Andrea here) she sees "mid tier housing" and is just like (Shoka voice) mid tier? i'm not mid i'm based lol
andrea
: LITERALLY welcome back Shoka's canonical laziness...when i play her in BCB my knowing that she's canonically a slacker who cares not at all about ranking up in anything (except maybe FanGO levels) is constantly at war with my desire to play barbies and quest with everyone
Kibi
: I WOULD LOVE TO TAG WITH YOU... when Kururu told me there was a Shoka in here I genuinely got so excited because I used to RP Tsugumi and Rhyme lol
irl is NOT GREAT but i'm being so brave about it <-- has had a meltdown over every inconvenience that has happened since The Incident (and there have been many)
ANYWAY Siffrinx and Shoka CR very important to me....rotating them in my mind.....she is utterly baffled by The Siffrening rn but i'm excited to see what happens when she figures it out
jingle jangle
: GOOD TASTE!!! god do you think Shoka and Tsugumi were friends...do you think Tsugumi ever made her listen to Death Grips (i have no idea why i have this image in my head)
they were obviously acquaintances but i always thought that one scene where Coco like dunks on Shoka for not figuring out Tsugumi's Troubles was inchresting.....girls who have a mutual friend but hate each other
taffy
: HI TAFFY HIIIIIIIII!!! honestly it's about time...i feel like i talked about it during her Ryslig run on occasion but never did anything about it
intellectually i know that Swallow is only really referred to with they/them because it's an English localization and it's way easier to go pronoun-less in Japanese, etc. and also because Swallow being Shoka All Along is a reveal so they don't even want to give away a gender.....but what if it actually meant something.
and I mean honestly teenagerhood IS kinda peak time to start coming to gender realizations, it happens to much older people all the time, it COULD mean something -
♥︎ It's you?
: YOU GOTTA. i need to see the escalation between their interactions. first interaction is her bullying them about their wood carving. second interaction is her going ARE THERE ANY OTHER SIFFRINS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Kibi
: considering Shoka calls Tsugumi "sweetie" twice me and my girlfriend ran with that (we ship them bc they're just like us) but they were absolutely friends a little bit. Shoka listen to her obscure death metal CDs with her PLEAAAASE.
the image in my head is of Shoka and Tsugumi sharing headphones and Shoka is like "wow...she's sitting so close...😳" and Death Grips is just screaming in her ear IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES GUILLOTIIIIINNNEEEEEEE
(I hope your irl is calming down, wheezes, I am still boggling about the thing you shared)